What’s illegal contact? Never heard of it

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1. This happens on like every boundary route though. Whoever boxes out the other guy wins these jump balls and he just flat out got position on Parker and beat him.

2. Perhaps our big bodied receiver that only excels at one route should not get bodied out of bounds.

   Or our QB should notice that our WR is… I don’t even know how to describe what he’s doing.

3. We got away with this on the Hunter Henry TD, it happens.

4. If you watch all-22 tape nearly every outside wide receiver is going through this down the field. I mean the Pats got away with their own no call on the Henry touchdown.

5. This is pretty standard. The boundary corner is taught to force the receiver into the sideline and it’s virtually never called.

6. Burrow throws this shit all the time. Spoiler alert: Chase and Higgins don’t get bodied.

7. No fight in Parker. He’s the tin man of WRs

8. I still can’t figure out why tf Mac threw that ball. It was first down ffs.

9. Lol bro, this sub…

10. Still a bad throw man. Mac has been very good to start this year but that was a terrible decision. Parker gets no sympathy either as he could and should have fought back on the route. But Mac straight up made a poor choice. Thankfully it was one that didn’t really end up mattering since the defense forced a 3 and out right after.

11. Still have no idea why Parker did not pump the brakes the minute he was getting pushed outta bounds and come back to the ball. He got beat to his spot and did nothing to prevent it.

12. Any good LTs in the draft next year?

13. Washed WR, get over it.

14. You posted this a whole day after the game like bro get over it

15. I think Mac balled out last night but this is a poor throw. That ball needs to be at the highest possible point that Parker is able to catch it at.

16. Unless that route was supposed to stop at the five (which isn’t impossible given the way OB is running the offense), that’s just a bad throw by Mac and a good route by Howard. If the route was supposed to stop at the 5 (and I doubt it was) then Parker ran it poorly – Howard ran it better.

17. The comments are so weird.

    It’s obviously illegal contact.

    Whether it should have been thrown or not is a different question. And even if it was PI or illegal contact, that doesn’t excuse the Patriots offense for any other mistakes they made, like fumbling, failing to convert short yardage runs, not being able to protect the QB, or throwing it to the other team at the five yard line.

18. Refs just letting them play. They were cool with it all night, I’m good with it as long it’s consistent

19. This really isn’t bad. That pass never should have been thrown.

20. Mac should have put that ball high and away so it goes out of bounds if Parker can’t go up and snag it.

    Low and flat was not the best decision for that ball, especially when he probably let the ball go when they were still hand fighting.